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Cohen and Rosenzweig on Death of Multiple-Choice Exams
CHNM staffers Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig have published an article in the Feb. 24, 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education on the implications of Cohen’s H-Bot software, and of similar data-mining services and the web in general. “No Computer Left Behind” argues that just
Women in World History Announces Online Forum
CHNM is happy to announce that our Women in World History project will host the last in its series of four month-long online forums in March 2006, Women in Asia. These forums give world history teachers the chance to talk about ways to teach issues surrounding women and gender in world history, and
Women in World History Announces Online Forum
CHNM is happy to announce that our Women in World History project will host the third in its series of four month-long online forums in February 2006, Women in Latin America. These forums give world history teachers the chance to talk about ways to teach issues surrounding women and gender in world
CHNM Launches Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
In an effort to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, The Center for History and New Media has launched the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. A collaboration with the University of New Orleans, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank brings toge
CHNM “Blogosphere”
The Center for History and New Media has always been on the cutting edge of technology and scholarship, and today a new resource joins the already extensive CHNM site: the CHNM blogosphere. Visit us to read CHNM faculty and staff member perspectives on trends in digital history and traditional histo
CHNM’s Bracero History Project in the News
The El Paso Times and Denton Record-Chronicle reported this week about CHNM’s Bracero History Project, a joint effort with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso. The Bracero History Project seeks to e
Guide to Digital History Published by CHNM Staff Members
The University of Pennsylvannia Press has just published Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig. Cohen is Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and Rosenzweig is Director and f
IMLS awards funding for “Firefox Scholar” and “The Object of History”
CHNM is pleased to announce two new awards from the Institute for Museum and Library Services for Firefox Scholar and The Object of History. The Object of History, a joint project of CHNM and the Smithsonian Institution�s National Museum of American History, will develop a new model for bringin
Rosenzweig on Digital Archives in Chronicle of Higher Education
CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig appears in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education with a column entitled Digital Archives Are a Gift of Wisdom to Be Used Wisely. In the article, Rosenzweig argues that it is not enough to digitize sources and build archives. Rather, the librarians, archivists,
Digital Stories: Multimedia Narratives, Cultural Resources, and Humanities Knowledge
This spring’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities, which will focus on new ways of representing humanities knowledge through short multimedia narrative. Authors of these multimedia narratives combine images, music and sound from personal and cultural archives, cultural in